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Fitness Photo Shoot with Chantal

Chantal, a week off her win at the OPA Provincial Championships, came into studio with me. We split the difference and met in Mississauga at Peter House Studios.

Chantal was great to work with and had an amazing physique. I definitely recommend working with her. We got a few looks in during our shoot and we plan on shooting again closer to the CFBB National competition.

Fitness model and Figure Competitor Chantal.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Boxing Training Session with Kara - Old School

The first time I photographed anything to do with boxing was 3 years ago when Kara invited me to shoot her training session. The photo session took place at Boomerz Boxing Club a beautiful old school boxing gym located in downtown London. With the exposed brick, wood floors and old time posters I knew this had to be photographed in black and white. Kara's striking coach is Gord Riddell who's worked with some of the top fighters in London. (and yes his fist is legitimately the size of her face)

It was really great to look back on this shoot that started me off in boxing and allowed me to meet some many great people, like Lawrence Boom. I have to get back out to Boomerz to photograph another training session soon.

Kara taking a break from training.

Kara taking a break from training.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Fitness Boot Camp Photoshoot - Gaudet Fitness Solutions

I've worked with Shelley Gaudet of Gaudet Fitness Solutions out of Paris Ontario before. She runs small group personal training to people. Myself and Melissa O'Leary (makeup artist) went out to Shelley's fitness studio / property. I photographed 4 of her clients all around the property as a milestone to their personal fitness journey. Everyone of her clients exuded an amazing amount of positive energy, a real testament to Shelly's training and methods. Afterwards we did a few group pictures which turned out great. I look forward to working with more of Shelly's clients this Saturday coming up.

The fitness class gang from Saturday.

The fitness class gang from Saturday.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

- Gaudet Fitness Solutions offers small group personal training classes and nutritional guidance to help people meet their weight loss or other fitness goals.

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Portrait Session with Boxing Magazine Owner Dameon Okposio

I had my good friend Dameon Okposio come into studio to update his head shots. You can always use a good head shot for business. Dameon does a lot of seminars and speaking engagements so the pictures really support him. In addition Dameon writes for and publishes Below the Belt Magazine. We did some basic portrait work with Dameon in his unique shirts and then went on the head shots.

A nice standard business head shot

A nice standard business head shot

I only know one joke, but it's a good one.

I only know one joke, but it's a good one.

Maybe the best image of the day after the shoot as we went out for dinner,

Maybe the best image of the day after the shoot as we went out for dinner,

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

- Dameon Okposio runs Below the Belt Magazine, the Ontario Boxing Hall of Fame, has promoted fights, managed boxers and runs several community programs.

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Long Exposure Dance Shoot with Deanna

I'd like to start off with saying thank you to Sean Allott, over the past couple of years he has taught me so much about photographic lighting. (Amongst other things) His continued support and guidance has made me a better photographer. One of the first things he taught me was "model safety is very important, model comfort is not, just get the shot" The other night he showed me mixed continuous and strobe lighting to show motion trails on a moving subject. It was a very cool lighting experiment for me. It's important to experiment and grow your skill set.

The model for this photo shoot was Deanna. We played around with some dance moves and other poses. She was super patient as I was learning a new lighting setup while using a camera I had never shot with before. I think we got some really cool looking shots and next time I will definitely be better and more creative with the process.

Makeup for the shoot was courtesy of Melissa O Makeup

I played around with mixed continuous light and strobes for different visual effects as well as multiple strobes fires within the same exposure.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Steven Wilcox - WBA-NABA Super Lightweight Title Fight

Three Lions Promotions put on another great pro boxing event in Hamilton, Ontario. Steven "The Piranha" Wilcox defended his WBA-NABA Super Lightweight belt. Despite having to fight the last 4 rounds with only one hand, Steven was never in any trouble during the fight and dropped his opponent twice in the 6th round. A great night of fights overall.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Three Lions Promotions - June 3rd Boxing Event - Behind the Scenes

Three Lions Promotions put on another great pro boxing event in Hamilton, Ontario. 5 good fights, including the WBA-NABA Super Lightweight title fight. I got to see a lot a familiar faces and meet some new people as well. I shot behind the scenes in the dressing rooms before heading ringside for the title fight. Thanks to Three Lions for giving me exclusive access to all of the dressing rooms.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Reform Fitness Trainer Bianca

Bianca, a personal trainer for REFORM Fitness came to the studio for promotional images. She's very athletic and a kick boxer who was really willing to make some serious moves to great great images. Outstanding physique and an outstanding attitude make for a superior photo shoot. We did some images on white and some on the dark background. Lots of fun was had be the owner of Reform Fitness with the wind machine. Hair and makeup (Alessia Ferraro) was less amused!

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Ontario Boxing Hall of Fame Inductions - 2017

I was back for my second year at the Ontario Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremony. A great day of events put on my Dameon Okposio. It was an emotional ceremony with more than one recipient in tears by the end of their speeches. A lot of deserving boxers and builders were inducted.

Inducted that night were

1. Nicky Furlano
2. Donny Lalonde
3. Troy Ross
4. Allen Tremblay
5. Colin Fraser
6. Raymond Smillie*
7. Clyde Gray
8. Domenic Filane

I did the event photography for the evening as well as the Ontario Boxing Hall of Fame plaque design.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Dance Shoot with Megan

I had some extra time in the studio last week and Megan came in to shoot a little dance with me. I had worked with Megan before as a ring girl from a boxing show. Megan was great and we did a little head shot work afterwards.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Teaser image from Fitness Photo Shoot

Bianca, a personal trainer for REFORM Fitness came to the studio for promotional images. She's very athletic and a kick boxer who was really willing to make some serious moves to great great images. Outstanding physique and an outstanding attitude make for a superior photo shoot. Keep an eye out for more images in the next few weeks from this set.

Toronto fitness model and personal trainer Bianca posing in studio showing off her abs.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Boxing images from United Promotions Boxing in Toronto

I went to Mississauga on Friday night for the United Promotions Boxing show. There were some entertaining fights on the card that say Josh O'Reilly move to 9-0 after crushing his opponent's body with a devastating left. Always a good time to get ringside for some fights in Toronto.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Athletic Nudes with Ballerina Annelie (NSFW)

A dancer contacted me on Facebook about modeling for my athletic nude series. I had never photographed dance before but sometimes you just go for it. Annelie is a travelling ballerina with the Canada's Ballet Jorgen based in Toronto. She had just finished up a nation-wide tour and was heading back to Europe the next week. The photo shoot came together super quick and we only had a narrow window to work together at the studio due to her travel schedule. In the 90 minutes we did have, dozens of beautiful images were made. Her grace, power and athleticism were apparent in her warm up. She did insane stretches seemingly without effort. For me it was like photographing poetry. I would love to work with her again when she returns.

If there are any other dancers out there (male or female) that would like to participate in the project, please contact me.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Athletic Nudes with Stefan

Stefan came to the studio to pose for my athletic nude series. Stefan is a former amateur boxer and now a fitness competitor. We did some standard fitness type poses and then broke out into some motion images. Fitness images are much more engaging with motion and muscles under load. Stefan was great and was up to try any poses / movement I had in mind. His physique showed well under the lights and I think we got some very good images.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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